Improvement in pencil-holders



Patented May 16, 1871.'.

UNITEDv STATES 'PATENT OFFICE.

HORACE J. WICKHAM, OEMANCHESTER, CONNECTICUT, ASSIGNOR, BY MESNEASSIGNMENTS, TO JOSEPH RECKENDORFER, OF-NEW YORK CITY.

IMPROVEMENT IN PENCIL-HOLDERS.

Specification forming part of Letters vPatent No. 114,893, dated May 161871.

To all 'whom it may concern:

Beit known that I HORACE J. WICKHAM, of

.Manchester, county of' Hart-ford and State of Connecticut, haveyinvented certain new and useful Improvements the Manufacture ofPencils; and to enable others skilled in the art to make the same, Iwill proceed to describe, referring to the drawings, in which the sameletters indicate like parts each ofthe figures. A

The object of this invention is to produce a cheap, efficient, anddurable article.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure l is a l 'sectional side view. Fig.2 is a side view of the same, having a cap and watch-key attachedthereto.

a. is a pencil-stock, of anysuitable material, having a chamber c,formed therein for the reption of the lead d. The end e of this stock iscone-shaped, and is provided with a screw-tl.\read, f, just back of andin close proximity with the cone-shaped end. This outer end or coneshape has a longitudinal slit, so that di'erent size leads may beintroducedy into and compressed therein. h is a screw-threaded cap, madefrom fiat sheetmetal blankA very much in the same way or man- .ner offorming cartridge-shells, and afterward finish the cap by spinning upthe screw-thread j" thereon inthe common way, so as to produce acomplete and perfect finish of the screw-thread f and conical end h.Thus I am enabled to insert into the chamber c leads of -Variable sizesAand lengths, equal to the length of the stock, and, by turning said caph onto the screw-threadf over the conical-sl1aped end e of thepencil-stock a, it will, at its extreme point, rmly compress the-longitndinally-slitted cone-shaped end e of the stock, at' or near itsextreme point, against the body of the lead, and, when the lead is wornup, by simply loosening the cap h the lead can be easily and quicklyreadjusted and firmly secured in the gripe of the slitted end by turningthe cap firmly onto the screw of the stock. i is a cap for lthe oppositeend of the stock. This vcap may be made a perfect duplicate of the capWhat I claim, and desire to secure by Letters.

l. As an improved article of manufacture, a'

pencil, the stock of which has a chamber for an adjustable lead, anexterior screw-thread, a conical-shaped end, and with a longitudinalslit therein, all formed in one piece composing the stock, combined witha screw-threaded cap having a conical end formed from sheet-metal, and

serving to clamp the stock to the lead, constructed, as described, so asto t to the conical end ofthe stock and give support to its extremepoint, all substantially as set forth. A

2. In combin( tion with a finishing cap or socket of the pencil, thewatch-key k aiiixed thereto on the line of lits axis, substantially asand for the purpose set forth.

H. J. WICKHAM. [L. si

Witnesses:

R. T. SIPERRY, E. YV. BLiss.

